in the middle third. The furrows between the posterior pygidial segments are faint, while segmentation in the pleural region of the pygidium is barely discernable. Distribution Morocconites malladoides, the only designated species of this (monotypical) genus lived during the late Lower Devonian (Emsian) or early Middle Devonian (Eifelian) in what is now southern Morocco, and presumably neighbouring Mauritania and the former Spanish Sahara. Habitat Most phacopids were probably marine bottom-dwellers. Ecology Morocconites is presumed to have been a fast-moving low-level epifaunal detritivore. References External links Photo of Morocconites Photos of Morocconites Calmoniidae Phacopida genera Monotypic arthropod genera Devonian trilobites of Africa